Tuesday, 16 July 2019

Metaphysical Meditations: Universal Prayers, Affirmations, and Visualizations by Paramahansa Yogananda






Let us pray in our hearts for a League of Souls and a United World.




Meditation is that special form of concentration in which the attention has been liberated from restlessness and is focused.




Drop your mind into the bottomless well of your heart.





Loosen your mind from the consciousness of body-weight.  Relax the nerve-strings that are attached to the heavy muscles and bones of your body.




My earthly experiences serve as a process of destruction of my limiting mortal delusions.




The reality of my life cannot die, for I am indestructible consciousness.




Good-bye, blue house of heaven.  Farewell, stars and celestial celebrities and your dramas on the screen of space.  Good-bye, flowers with your traps of beauty and fragrance.  You can hold me no longer. I am flying home.




Let me not drug myself with the opiate of restlessness.




Within the soul is the joy that my ego is seeking.



Fix the gaze of your restless eyes on the spot between the eyebrows.  Dive into the sacred star of meditation. Keep broadcasting love thoughts to your dear ones of this world and to those who have gone ahead of you in robes of light.



During deep meditation, the single or spiritual eye (variously referred to in scriptures as the third eye, the star of the East, etc) becomes visible within the central part of the forehead.  The will, projected from this point, is the broadcasting apparatus of thought.  Man's feeling or emotional power, calmly concentrated on the heart, enables it to act as a mental radio that receives the messages of other persons, far or near.



Why tie the infinite soul to a bony post of flesh? Let go!  Cut the cords of flesh consciousness, attachments to the body, hunger, pleasure, pain, and bodily and mental involvements.  Relax.  Loosen the soul from the grip of the body.